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Drake Is The Most Popular Rap Artist on Genius

Besides keeping social media on lock after his performance at Coachella last weekend, there’s now

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Besides keeping social media on lock after his performance at Coachella last weekend, there’s now further proof that Drake is the hottest rap artist in the industry in 2015. According to annotation site Genius and its page view statistics, Drizzy has dominated their web traffic in the first quarter of 2015. On top of that, his track “Know Yourself” has been named the most popular song on their site. As you can see in the chart below, the Toronto native is closely being followed by Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar.

Drake Is The Most Popular Rap Artist on Genius

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